Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yörük village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love – a girl already promised to someone else.

Winner: Sundance 2025 World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award and the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision

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Terry Butcher is a name etched into English football history — synonymous with blood, bravery and uncompromising leadership. A defender revered as “a man you wanted in the trenches,” his image became iconic: bandaged head, bloodied shirt, driving his team forward through sheer will. But Terry Butcher: Invisible Wounds goes far beyond the mythology of the pitch, revealing a deeper, more human story. In 2017, Butcher’s son Christopher, a British Army veteran, passed away after battling severe PTSD — a loss that shattered the former England captain in ways no opponent ever could. Forced to confront grief, trauma and vulnerability, Butcher faced a reality far removed from the identity that defined his life in football. Through intimate access and powerful testimony, the film traces his journey from loss to purpose. Alongside Butcher’s own account, contributions from Gary Lineker, Ally McCoist, Kieron Dyer and Alan Brazil reflect on his legacy, character and the wider impact of his story beyond football. At its core, the documentary shows how Butcher transformed unimaginable grief into action through Combat2Coffee, the peer-support organisation founded by Nigel Seaman. It is a powerful exploration of resilience, identity, and the redefinition of strength, revealing that true courage lies not only in moments of glory but also in the quiet determination to carry on.

Faris is a transman and lead singer of ‘Shh..Diam!’, an openly queer punk band in Malaysia. Together with his bandmates Yon and Yoyo, they use their music to fight for LGBTQI+ rights in a country where human rights and freedom of expression is severely curtailed by a conservative Muslim society. Faced with increasing discrimination, Yoyo decides to leave Malaysia. Despite the challenges, Faris chooses to stay, determined to continue using their music as a platform for advocating for freedom and equality, refusing to let the pressures of society silence their voice.

Following on from 2012 documentary Keep on Burning - The Story of Northern Soul, this new film further explores the cultural phenomenon that is Northern Soul. Northern Soul: Still Burning charts how this movement has weaved and transformed itself musically and culturally through the decades. Northern Soul continues to re-invent itself more than any other music genre, remaining as vibrant and relevant today as when it first evolved. Features exclusive interviews with Richard Searling, Paul Mason, Elaine Constantine, Kev Roberts, Russ Winstanley, David Nathan, Wayne Hemingway, Dave Evison, Keith Gildart, Levanna McLean, Tony Blackburn and many, many more.

In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family's life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of displacement, but the unbreakable spirit of survival.

A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.

John Woo's all-time classic in a new 4K restoration. Bullet In The Head was originally planned as a prequel to A Better Tomorrow, but when Woo fell out with his producer he reworked his script as a reaction to the Tiananmen Square incident in Beijing the year prior. Bullet in the Head follows childhood friends and gang members Ben, Frank and Paul, as they flee the Hong Kong slums after accidentally killing a rival gang leader. When the trio seek refuge in war-torn Saigon, however, their troubles pile up faster and faster...

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, Hen follows a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece. As she fights to protect her eggs, she becomes an unwitting witness to the complex human lives around her as the restaurant is caught up in greed, smuggling, and the migrant crisis.

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker László Nemes (Son of Saul), ORPHAN is a visually stunning historical drama from a true cinematic visionary. In 1957 Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor — raised by his mother with idealised tales of his deceased father — has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true father. Channeling the greatest 20th century neorealist cinema, Nemes’ latest feature offers a haunting and deeply moving exploration of identity and memory, tracing the fragile process of rebuilding a sense of self against the shadow of history.

Keith Jarrett’s iconic January 1975 performance nearly never happened. Based on a true story, Köln 75 follows the young, driven concert promoter Vera Brandes as she conceives and organises the event against all odds. From securing the venue and selling tickets to persuading Jarrett to perform when the promised Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano is missing, Vera’s determination is tested at every turn. The film reveals the compelling and little-known story behind Jarrett’s one-hour, entirely improvised concert, which went on to become the best-selling solo jazz album in history.

Based on Gary Owen's much lauded and widely performed monodrama, Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau is director Marc Evans' cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales. The film follows Effi, a young woman desperate to escape a town where the pubs are closed, the jobs have vanished and her grandmother works night shifts in the local chip shop just to get by. A chance encounter in a Llandudno nightclub with injured soldier Lee, played by Tom Rhys Harries, briefly opens a door to something better. For a moment, Effi glimpses a life she never imagined. The reality that follows is far tougher. 

Celebrating Mel Brooks' 100th Birthday (one day early). When talking about film parody it's impossible not to think of Mel Brooks. Blazing Saddles is quintessential Brooks - a Western spoof loaded with inside jokes, anachronisms, toilet humour and the director's favourite actors performing his favourite form of broad burlesque comedy. Cleavon Little is Bart, a black sheriff hired by the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) to get the residents of Rock Ridge, who live in the way of his railroad, to sell out. But the plan backfires and the new sheriff and his deputy, the Waco Kid (Gene Wilder), a reformed gun-and-bottle-slinger, stand up against Lamarr and his thugs. For sheer offensive-jokes-per-minute Blazing Saddles may still hold the world record. Still, many hail the film as an unflinching satire of racism. And let's not forget that the film was nominated for three Oscars - Best Supporting Actress (Madeline Kahn, doing a hilarious takeoff on Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again, 1939), Best Editing and Best Song.

Set on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s,Blue Heron follows eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family as they attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy. Drawing on her own memories, filmmaker Sophy Romvari shapes a deeply personal portrait of childhood, family fractures, and the fragility of recollection.